Dad liked the Clancy Bros, had their albums with his other Folkie fare. He wasn't even ethnic Irish.They did some interesting stuff..great harmonies, telling political stories as well as straight ballads. Liam, the lead singer had a great voice.

Completely outside that, the old Mary Hopkin version was a "who sang that incredible song!!" moment for me in the 80s. I had to know.

===============Resurrection moment: buried in the Palin thread, Madison Man had a very funny little post I thought was worth putting up again.

MadisonMan said... When my wife told me her water broke, I gave her a kleenex. (True story!)

In the patter in the beginning he connects it to Dylan Thomas and the tavern in the song to the White Horse Tavern in Greenwich Village. Thomas drank too much there one night (and died). We used to live a couple blocks from it, back in the 1970s.

MomaM - That's cool. I remember a fair number of things incorrectly as well.

And misplace songs between artists in heated conversations. Like me thinking Don Cafferty did "Hungry Heart" - not Springsteen - and losing a fairly humbling bet, so sure was I.

At Althouse, what is really funny is when someone is dead wrong (see Freder Frederickson's famous thermodynamics lectures of a few years ago on Gorebulbs) and when other posters point out they are incorrect, dig deeper out of pride. Then the goading starts to make Freder or DTL or etc. angrier and dig even deeper and say even more stupid shit.

Speaking of clichés, as you do @ 10:06 AM, at least the NYT obit didn’t say that the Clancy Brothers had “changed the face of folk music” as so many bios, in print or on the tube, do for pioneers in any entertainment field.

It was probably because of the Clancy Brothers -- no, it was because of the Clancy Brothers -- that my sister and I went to Ireland for a week the summer when I was 21 and she was 17. We were going, like moths toward flame, towards the way they made the English language all golden and warm like whiskey.

O, you rap and you callAnd you pay for allAnd go home at the break of day.